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...Goddess. All that's exciting in the new cast of cinema characters is prepotently present in Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave. They look, to begin with, like no other actresses currently facing clapper cues?and certainly not like each other. Both are tall, but Vanessa is the taller by a smidgen; at 5 ft. 10½ in., she is the skyscrapingest screen queen in filmsville. (Garbo, though her pressagent insisted that she was only 5 ft. 7, wore flat heels in Grand Hotel but still swayed high above John Barrymore, whose pressagent insisted that he stood 5 ft. 10.) For her height...
...sure, echoes of Paris were everywhere. Culottes, shorts and bloomers were big; so, as in Paris, were belts, textured stockings and lots of bright African prints. Hemlines were lower by a smidgen-but still high enough to expose an ample expanse of thigh...
...York City is desperately short of water, but next week it will greatly improve the supply that it has. It will add just a smidgen of fluoride-one part per million parts-to the water drunk by some 9,000,000 people who live or work in and around the city. The purpose, of course, is to improve dental health by reducing cavities. Already, 50 million other Americans in 2,848 communities get the same insurance added to their water. In addition, 7.7 million Americans drink water that has already been fluoridated by quirks of nature...
...performance mercury batteries now being perfected for cardiac pacemakers (TIME, Jan. 11, 1960). Another possibility would be to install an electric coil inside the body and have it operated through induction by a power pack worn outside the heart. Either system would supply adequate electrical stimuli but only a smidgen of mechanical power...
...still-wriggling survivors include Robertson, himself a former beach bum now employed full time as the husband of Heiress Lana Turner. Having discarded poor Billy along with last season's swimming suit, Lana naturally feels a smidgen of guilt. Billy's prim fiancee (Stefanie Powers) takes it rather hard too. She arrives from Detroit in very low spirits, but soon slips into something more comfortable, persuaded by Cliff that thinking up answers for a lively lover easily beats asking questions about a defunct beau...